Brazil’s banking chief argues that crypto is a failure as a currency — but in neighbouring Venezuela it has already ‘changed the destiny of an entire country’. The President of the Brazilian Banking Federation, Murilo Portugal, has argued that cryptocurrencies are not really currencies at all. Portugal was speaking in Continue Reading

Bitcoin’s hashrate has plummeted 45% since the record-breaking levels it saw on Feb. 29. The hashrate touched an all-time high of 136 exahash per second (EH/s) but has since dropped to 75 EH/s. Moreover, the crypto network has seen the second-largest difficulty drop since October 2011. Also read: While You’re Continue Reading

Estonian crypto exchange BitBay has now been offline for eighteen hours now, sparking concern among users. Estonia-based cryptocurrency BitBay has been offline for 18 hours now, citing problems caused by a third-party service provider. On March 26, BitBay tweeted that it was struggling with a “network problem” resulting from their Continue Reading

Ripple will allocate funds to non-profit organizations in favor of fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Ripple Labs announced a donation of $200,000 to two different non-profit organizations on March 25. These donations will aid in the fight to contain the spread of the coronavirus throughout the U.S. In a tweet published on Continue Reading

Libra association member will include Solana at platform’s mainnet launch. Blockchain infrastructure-as-a-service company and Libra association member, Bison Trails, announced support for Solana on March 26. Solana is an open-source project that implements permissionless blockchain technology. Solana’s protocol uses a new approach to establish the order of blocks, called Proof-of-History, Continue Reading

India’s Tech Mahindra said faster reconciliation and a reduction in paperwork are just two of the benefits of its implementation of the Marco Polo blockchain platform. Tech Mahindra, the IT subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Mahindra Group, has become the first Indian business to use R3’s blockchain-based Marco Polo Network for Continue Reading

Leaders from different corners of the crypto industry react to the sudden prospect of a digital dollar, highlighting both promise and peril for users. COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the global economy. As legislators in the United States go back and forth on how best to distribute aid, the conversation Continue Reading